Perl and other Scripting Languages
Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language) is a scripting language written by Larry Wall, with contributions from thousands of others. In the words of Hassan Schroeder, Sun’s first webmaster, “Perl is the duct tape of the Internet.”
www.perl.com
Launched by Tom Christiansen, www.perl.com provides a starting place for finding out everything about Perl. www.perl.com is also a mirror for CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network.
The Perl Institute
A non-profit organization dedicated to making Perl more useful. Volunteers and interested parties are welcome to contribute.
The Perl Journal
A quarterly publication that offers a mix of articles for beginners and power users alike.
ActiveState
ActiveState Tool Corp developed the original implementation of Perl for Win32, and is now the leading source of perl tools for the Windows Platform.
Tcl Resource Center
Tcl (Tool Control Language) is a powerful and flexible general purpose command language. Scriptics is the company recently formed by Tcl’s creator, John Ousterhout, to provide scripting tools, applications, and services based on tcl.
Python
Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language that is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. This site provides downloads, news, and much more.
Scriptics
A commercial venture that provides scripting tools, applications, and services. Scriptics is the primary distribution point for Tcl/Tk.